Bottle closure



1,494.558 May 20 19241. F. MAcY BOTTLE CLOS URE Filed April 4, 1923 aca Patented May 20, 1924.

UNITED STATES FRANK MAGY, OF CONVERSE, INDIANA.

BOTTLE CLOSURE.

Application filed April 4, 1923. Serial No. 629,908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK MAcY, a citizen of the United States. residing at Converse, in the county of Miami and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Bottle Closure, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to bottle or jar closures andmore particularly to cap closures of this character.

The object of the invention is to provide or disk closure for milk bottles and the like so constructed that a pouring opening is provided equipped with closing lips constructed and arranged so as to avoid all liability of the lips becoming loose in manufacture or handling during the passage through the capping machine, and insuring a perfect seal to prevent seepage of the contents of the bottle or the admission of water or other foreign matter.

Another object is to provide a cap of this character having a pouring opening equipped with upper and lower closing lips so constructed as to render it impossible to push the upper lip through the opening and also to prevent displacement until opening is desired.

Another object is to construct a cap of this character with a pouring opening having means for closing it which when the bottle equipped with such cap is overturned or inverted after said closing means has been opened, will automatically close by pressure thereon of the contents of the bbttle.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed may be made within the scope of what is claimed without dc arting from the spirit of the invention.

11 the accompanying drawings Fi re 1 represents a plan View of a bottle c osure constructed in accordance with this invention with the pouring opening closed, and

Fi 2 is a transverse section taken on the line 22 with the lips of the closing opening open ready for pouring.

The closure 1 constituting this invention comprises a paper disk constructed as is usual with closures of this character laminated material of two plys or layers 2 and 3, being shown arranged in superposed relation and frictionally held together. said layers being compressed in their manufacture to effect this connection. the lower face as well as the top being usually waterproofed after the cap is out.

A pouring opening 4 is shown centrally formed in the closure 1 by slitting the layers or laminations 2 and 3 to form outer and inner lips 5 and 6. the outer lip 5 being wider than the inner lip 6 to provide at the opposite sides of lip 6 shoulders or seats 9 on which the lip 5 is designed to rest when the same is in closed position and prevent its being pushed down into the bottle. The lip 6 is also provided at its base with a shoulder 7 to form a rest for the free end of lip 5 and lip 6 has a similar shoulder 8 at its base against which the free end of lip 6 is designed to rest when in closed position.

It will thus be seen that the pouring opening 4 is equipped with a closure composed of two lips 5 and 6 extending in opposite directions and lapping when closed, thus providing an unbroken sheet under the cut end of the top lip and over the cut end of the bottom lip forming firm supports for the free ends of the lips and providing a cap of uniform thickness throughout, thereby facilitating its action in bottle capping machinery and requiring only the normal space in the packing tubes.

In the use of this cap, it being applied to the bottle in the form shown in Fig. 1, when it is desired to remove a portion of the contents the lip 5 is raised into the position shown in Fig. 2 by any suitable means and the lip 6 is depressed as shown in Fig. 2 so that the contents of the bottle may be freely poured out through the opening 4 and when a portion is left in the bottle, the outer lip 5 may be pressed down onto the seats 7 and 9 and securely close the opening 4 to protect the contents remaining in the bottle and the inverting of the bottle will cause the rush of the contents remaining therein to close the inner lip seating 1t tightly and preventing escape of the contents.

It is well known that in cooling milk, the bottles containing it are submerged in water and this provision of overlapping lips constructed as herein shown and described prevents all possibility of cooling water entering the bottle. or of the milk seeping out.

Various changes in the form, shape, proportionand other minor details of c0nstruC- tion may be made without departing from the principle or sacrificing-any of the advantages of the claimed invention.

1. A closure of the class described having a pouring opening formed therein and equipped with closing lips therefor, one extending in one direction and one in the other and designed to overlie each other when closed, one of said lips opening inwardly and the other outwardly.

2. A closure of the class described having a pouring opening formed therein and equipped with closing lips therefor, one extending in one direction and one in the other and designed to overlie each other when closed.

3. ,A closure of the class described having a pouring opening formed therein and equipped with closing lips therefor, one extending in one direction and one in the other and designed to overlie each other when closed, the lower lip being narrower than the upper to provide supports at opposite sides of-the opening to prevent the upper lip from being depressed into the bottle.

4. A closure of the class described having a pouring opening formed therein and equipped with closing lips therefor, one extending in one direction and one in the other and designed to overlie each other when closed. the lower lip being narrower than the upper to proxide supports at opposite sides of the opening to prevent the upper lip from being depressed into the bottle.

A closure of the class described composed of laminated material having a pouring opening formed therethrough, said opening being provided by forming lips struck out of said laminations and extending in opposite directions the base of one lip having a shoulder to receive the free end of the other lip.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence oftwo witnesses.

' FRANK MACY.

Witnesses: v

Geo. B. FISHER, W. A. DEroY. 

